Quotes About Challenges

Having a two-year-old son is challenging, and my missus is only 21, so we're both young, and it is difficult.

It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.

I never went to drama school. It's a brilliant thing for the right type of person, but I threw myself in the deep end.

I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.

I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies.

Headline writing is tough because often times you are given a predetermined number of spaces and words depending on the layout and the type of the story.

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

It's a European art form, and you're used to seeing a certain type of person as a ballerina. And I don't look like a lot of the girls around me.

I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.'

Organisations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

This type of mass influx is simply too much to handle. What we've had since the disaster of the 1965 Immigration Act will take 100 years or more to absorb.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

The reality that everyone is stereotyped - every one gets typecast, so you have to work to get out of that.

I've said maybe too many times that I'd rather be typecast than not cast at all.

I was always typecast as a Latina.

That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typecast as a lion, and there just weren't many parts for lions.

It can be difficult to get cast as something that is off-center from you, and my biggest fear is to be typecast.

I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.

I love when I am not typecast. I've been acting for 50 years. I was such a baby face; I was playing children until I was in my 30s, which frustrated me enormously. Now that I am 65 and getting to play women in their 50s, I am getting paid back for having to play children for so long.

Show business always tries to stereotype you, so that is something you have to fight against no matter who you are. A lot of actors who are of a minority background complain that they only get stereotyped roles, and they are 100 percent correct. However, it's also true that, no matter who you are, you get typecast as well.

For me, playing a mother was a point of resistance; the question of 'will I get typecast' was going on in my mind.

In India, you get typecast so easily!

I don't want to be typecast as a heroine doing just glamorous roles.

I have been very lucky that I never got typecast while playing female characters.